i googled this and i am surprised to learn this is true he was genuinely quite vehemently opposed to racial segregation and jim crow i systematically brought down the jim crow laws of this town he fred phelps claimed phelps daughter was quoted as saying we took on the jim crow establishment and kansas did not take that sitting down they used to shoot our car windows out screaming we were nigger lovers and that the phelps law firm made up onethird of the states federal docket of civil rights cases how can a person so nobly dedicated to fighting racial segregation surely it cant have just been a money thing if he was receiving death threats also be such a vile homophobe